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At the 2009 Junior World Championships the IWF will launch for the first time its new technology innovation: the Live Results System. Following the successful tests at the Youth World Championships of ChiangMai and at the Pan-American Championships of Chicago, the IWF will now implement its new Live Results at the Junior World Championships starting […]

Olympic gold-medal winner Matthias Steiner has ruled out a return to Austria. The Austria-born weightlifter won gold at last summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing for Germany. He joined that country’s weight-lifting federation after falling out with the Austrian Weightlifters Association over training methods in 2005. Speaking to ORF.at, Steiner said today (Weds): “Performing for Austria […]

THE Bahrain Olympic Committee’s (BOC) new board of directors was announced during the ordinary meeting of the general assembly held at the National Stadium’s conference hall in Riffa. The meeting, chaired by present president Shaikh Isa bin Rashid Al Khalifa, saw 11 of Bahrain’s senior sports officials vie for seven posts within the committee board […]

As the country’s top Olympic event, weightlifters should qualify for US$90,000 sponsorship each year, head of the weightlifting department of national Sports Administration of Vietnam, Do Dinh Khang said. However the team received far less than it needed, he said. “Of the $90,000 budget for last year’s tournaments for weightlifting and bodybuilding, we saved $50,000 […]

Former Olympian and World Championship medallist Canadian Maryse Turcotte attended the 4th International Athletes Forum organised under the auspices of the IOC in Marrakesh, Morocco, representing the International Weightlifting Federation. Here is her short report after the Forum:“As the IWF athletes’ representative at the 4th IOC International Athletes Forum, I was involved in the working […]

When Sarah Robles transferred from Alabama to Arizona State to be a redshirt thrower on the track team, she found herself looking for a place to lift in the week before the school’s athletic facilities reopened. Robles looked on USA Weightlifting’s Web site to find a club in the area and wound up with Joe […]

Mr. Kang Hyun Suk, Mayor of Goyang City, host of the 2009 World Championships visited the IWF Secretariat at Budapest with his delegation. Dr. Tamás Aján, IWF President and members of the IWF Secretariat met the Goyang delegation and discussed the preparation of the 2009 Goyang World Championships. Further members of the delegation were Mr. […]

As a result of elections the new officials of Kenya Amateure Weightlifting Association are Pius Ochieng Chairman and John Ogolla secretary general. They are still setting up the new secretariat at Kitengela. The new chairman, Pius Ochieng is a two time Olympian, he had 10th position in Los Angeles and 15th in Seoul Olympic Games.

It was day four, the last day of the Pan-American Weightlifting Championships. The first group out was the men’s 105 kg weight class. With their first lift starting between 141 kg and 160 kg (between 311 lbs and 353 lbs) the day started with terrific lifts. The USA seemed to finally be holding its own […]

The Chinese Taipei University Sport Federation received the right from FISU to host the 2nd World University Weightlifting Championships in Taichung city. The dates of the 2nd WUC have been set for 1st to 5th July 2010.

The day started out with some great competition in the women’s 69 kg Group A, as competing were two 4th place finishers from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, Leidy Yessenia Solis Arboleda from Colombia in the 69 kg weight class and Christine Girard from Canada in the 63 kg weight class. Girard has now […]

Status The Weightlifting competition venue will be located in ExCeL which is the Games’ largest competition venue. It has 60,000 square metres of exhibition space and will be divided into five arenas. The enormous amount of space available allows the flexibility to create a bespoke arena for Weightlifting and provides all the necessary back of […]